Here are 10 new writing prompts for the week.
Use one prompt—or try combining several of them—each day this week and write a new short story.
1. It was just an old church, so why did it feel so creepy?
2. I started out in the cold that evening, even though I had no idea where I was going.
3. I raced to the edge of the shore. “Look,” I said and laughed. “I can’t believe it. It’s a message in a bottle!”
4. Nothing but forest stretched out for miles before us. “We’ll never get out of here,” I said.
5. So he had his own yacht. But was that any reason to run away with a stranger?
6. I was free at last!
7. I woke up confused. I was partially covered with snow, and standing before me was the biggest dog I’d ever seen. “Hey, boy,” I said. And then I must have fainted because…
8. Jason smoothed out a map on the table before me. “Pick someplace….anyplace, and that’s where we’ll go.”
9. As I clung to Richard, the balloon began to float up into the sky.
10. My friends hadn’t heard a word I’d said. They were too busy looking at Jasmine’s phone!
